Workshop | Politics of Poetics: Solmaz Sharif
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, June 21st, from 11AM - 12:3oPM
About the Event
Politics of Poetics is a series of readings and workshops that highlights influential contemporary poets whose practices traverse the political through writing, teaching, and activism. For this iteration, Solmaz Sharif—finalist in the 2016 American Book Award for poetry for her book Look—leads a workshop at the MCA.
This event is followed by a reading from Sharif and a talk with Wafaa Bilal, whose exhibition Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me is currently on view.
Access Information
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About the Author
Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, the New York Times, and others. Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lannan Foundation, and Stanford University. Sharif is currently the Shirley Shenker Assistant Professor of English at UC Berkeley.
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